Not since, oh, Martin and Lewis has there been a showbiz breakup as sudden and inexplicable. Last year the Muscular Dystrophy Association announced that Jerry Lewis was stepping down as host of its annual Labor Day telethon, the marathon TV event he had made his personal showcase, soap box and sentimental journey for 45 years. With the show cut from 21.5 hours to just 6, Lewis was being replaced by a quartet of hosts, the MDA said, and would make an appearance only at the end of the show, to say goodbye and sing “You’ll Never Walk Alone” one last time.

Then what seemed the sad but inevitable end of an era became something uglier. A few weeks before the show, the MDA issued a curt announcement that Jerry Lewis would not be making a goodbye appearance after all — and was resigning from his post as MDA national chairman. The telethon went on without him (raising $61.5 million, more than the previous year with Lewis, according to the MDA) and included a filmed tribute to him and warm words of thanks from various participants during the show. But no Jerry.

A year later, Lewis has been all but erased from the telethon’s memory. This year’s show, airing the Sunday night before Labor Day, has been further downsized, to just three hours, with no named host and a smattering of B-list guest stars (Carrie Underwood, Will.i.am, Khloe Kardashian). It is no longer called a telethon, but simply an “entertainment special,” and there will be no tote board tallying the donations. In the press announcement of the event, Jerry Lewis’s name is nowhere mentioned.

The story behind Lewis’s departure remains untold. But a few things have become clear in the year since the awkward public breakup. Jerry Lewis was dumped by the MDA, the charity he had been identified with since the 1950s. He’s still bitter about it. And the telethon is withering without him.

Lewis still won’t talk about what happened. “That’s not a place I want to go. Because if I go there, you’ll never get me back,” he said when I raised the subject with him recently in Nashville, where he’s directing a new stage musical, The Nutty Professor. “It’s not that I don’t want to talk about it. But I have already ingested all that I want from that whole f—ing adventure.”

The pain is not hard to discern. “This was a hurt man,” says Richard Belzer, the stand-up comic and Law and Order co-star, who has developed a close, almost father-son relationship with Lewis. Jerry’s goodbye appearance was scrapped after he and the charity could not agree on its format and length. Lewis wanted to do it live; the MDA floated several pre-taped options — “all insulting,” Belzer claims. “It’s as if they were trying to provoke him to leave.” In the end, he did. “It was a moral outrage, a PR nightmare and a sad commentary on this incredible philanthropic career,” says Belzer.

To be sure, dealing with Lewis, now 86, has never been a walk in the park. His annual Labor Day orgy of sentiment, self-regard and showbiz schmaltz was for many years something of a punch line. (“You know why they love Jerry Lewis in France,” a comedian told me not long ago. “In France, they don’t get the telethon.”) Still, he raised an estimated $2 billion for “Jerry’s kids” over more than a half-century with the MDA, and a well-orchestrated, celebrity-studded farewell to him on the telethon might have been a fundraising bonanza.

MDA officials continue to maintain that Lewis simply retired. “We honor Jerry Lewis, we admire the work he’s done for us, and we respect his decision to retire,” says Valerie Cwik, the MDA’s interim president. (She replaced Gerald Weinberg, who was reportedly behind Lewis’s ouster and who stepped down as president last December, after 54 years with the organization.) And she insists that the changes in the telethon are part of a necessary evolution in fundraising strategy, to put less emphasis on the once-a-year event. “It has to change because the American audience has changed,” says Cwik. “A 21.5-hour show doesn’t fit in a 140-character world.”

Doing what they did to Jerry was the most despicable thing I have ever seen! He IS the face of MDA and there is no way they raised more money than he a year after he was forced out. That is just a flat out lie. People still watched the telethon every year. They got the message and they donated. These 40+ diseases attack any and everyone. They do not discriminate and there is absolutely NO government money (not one penny) spent on research. It ALL comes from the donations that Jerry worked so hard and so long for. The truly sad thing about this is that now MDA is receiving millions less in donations after they forced out Mr. Lewis and the only ones who suffer then are the ones stricken with these diseases. you know.....JERRY'S KIDS! Because that's who they are. Every one of them.

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I Have been a Jerry's kid for 40 years. I think the money is going to the wrong places. They no longer help kids get wheelchairs AND A LOT OF OTHER THINGS THEY USE TO HELP WITH. I know because i have M.D. All the time I've been going to the M.D. clinics for 30 years and never have heard or got any kind of drug that will help, so if they have a cure they are keeping it very quite. I am very mad also that they pissed off Jerry and i know longer go to the clinics. I still give.

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Jerry stood up for the truth that Dr. Wallach presented to him and that is why he got fired. I'm sure they promised to make life bad for him if he speaks about it and that is more than likely why Jerry won't speak about it.

This is the thanks he gets for everything he has done for them? How cruel and heartless can they be! MD has lost all faith I had in them. Shows just how much they really care about those who are suffering from this disease.

Jerry Lewis did not step down . that is a media LIE ! He was fired because he wouldn't kiss the butts of the producers .. I think it is discusting and a real shame , this man did this for 60 plus years. and he was kicked to the curb . now, MDA telethon is what 4 hours... it's a joke. People who suffer with this illness deserve more.. You all can have a telethon for Haiti and raise a few billion dollars. .ask to help your own fellow american's and we get a couple million ..Cheers... (one real pissed off MD suffer)

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